Power to Assume Form

This book examines Cornelius Castoriadis’s elucidation of the social imaginary within human societies, assessing how strict dichotomisation between autonomous and heteronomous modes of institution hinders further insights into the creative capacities of social imaginary, while also imposing limits on Castoriadis’s own assessment of the ‘partially’ autonomous situation of modern societies.

Sean McMorrow is Editor of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy

Chapter 1: The Imaginary Institution of Anthropos: Articulating the Regions of Human Subjectivity Chapter 2: The Institution of Societies and the Social-Historical World: Historicity and Ontological Form Chapter 3: The Social Imaginary, Power and Historicity: The Political Dimension of Societies Chapter 4: Autonomy and Social-Historical Alteration Chapter 5: Liberal-Democratic Regimes: The Institutional Conditions of Depoliticisation